Approval of this item will authorize the City Manager to issue a purchase order(s) in the amount of $460,025.60 to Insituform Technologies, Inc. for services and materials necessary to maintain the City's sanitary and stormwater infrastructure.
Pricing for this purchase is per a Johnson County, Kansas cooperative contract, Authorization 78.
Purchases under cooperative agreements are authorized by Section 8.06.004, Paragraph 5 of the Independence City Code, which states that when cooperative bids or contracts are used, they will first have been established pursuant to generally accepted governmental purchasing practices and the competitive bidding process.
The funding for this purchase order(s) will break down as follows:
- $361,480.00 and a 10% contingency from the sanitary fund (no. 9757).
- $98,545.60 and a 10% contingency from the stormwater fund (no. 130508).
This is a budgeted capital expense.